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Description

E-adoption has been the central focus of the 21st century since both organizations and individuals around the globe are adopting the internet and other internet-based technologies for their daily and business activities. Businesses are adopting internet-based technologies for personal increase efficiency, improving marketing, reducing costs, increasing turnover, and profitability. Individuals are using e-adoptions for empowering themselves through their online active participations through a number of different activities. There have been worldwide success stories about how e-adoption has impacted individuals and organizations. It has been reported that through e-mail and web sites, human rights organizations in Egypt, the Palestinian territories, and elsewhere disseminate information far more effectively than ever before, despite their modest resources and limited access to the local media. On one hand, e-adoption has provided opportunities for individuals, communities, and organizations to participate in the knowledge-based society effectively. On the other side, it has also evoked many issues such as digital divide, knowledge divide, access and accessibility barriers, social relationships, work, culture, political participation, social empowerment, spatial boundaries, and the socio-economic impact of e-adoption.

The International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA) is a double-blind refereed international journal whose focus is to promote research in the area of e-adoption. IJEA distinguishes itself as a unique journal to cover the wide facets of e-adoption ranging from infrastructural research to socio-economic impact. The thrust of IJEA is to publish papers of both theory and practice that provide guidance to the policy makers, decision makers and practicing managers in business, industry, government, and academia for various e-adoption perspectives. IJEA draws on a wide range of disciplines, including information systems, computer science, decision sciences, operations management, marketing, cognitive psychology, social psychology, strategic management, and communication. As the use of internet technologies and electronic commerce revolution is growing, it is catching the attention of researchers worldwide. Researchers are trying to understand organizational, demographic, cultural factors, and socio-economic influences for e-adoption and how e-adoption has an impact at individual, firm, and country level.

Topics Covered

Adoption and diffusion of e-technologies among firms

Adoption e-government services

Adoption of e-government and its outcomes

Adoption of e-learning

Adoption of radio frequency identification technology

Architecture of e-workspace

Assessment of e-adoption and diffusion models

Cross-national e-adoptions

Determinants of e-adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises

Digital divides and the e-adoption

E-adoption and supply chain

E-adoption and supply chain management

E-adoption in healthcare organizations

E-commerce adoption by non-profit organizations

Economic cost of e-adoption

Effects of e-readiness factors on e-business adoption

E-governance and service delivery

E-health adoption

E-learning architectures

Electronic community networking and community-based technologies

Empowering virtual communities with mobility

Examining the impact of organizational characteristics on the extent of e-commerce adoption

Examining the socio-economic determinants of e-adoption

Factors affecting the e-adoption

Factors influencing the adoption of internet banking

Factors influencing the e-adoption of wireless technologies

Framework for e-adoption in government

Human factors challenges of e-workspaces

Impacts of government intervention on e-adoption

Internet adoption by SMEs

Major barriers and facilitators for the e-adoption

Managing knowledge in e- adoption

Model for e-commerce adoption

Perceptions and adoption of online banking

Privacy and security issues in e-world

Relationship between consumers' trust and e-commerce adoption

Role of individual and organizational factors in the e-adoption

Role of knowledge in the adoption of new technologies

Significant predictors of e-adoption

Social networks and e-adoption

Spatial externalities and e-adoption

Mission and Scope

The mission of the International Journal of E-Adoption (IJEA) is to broaden the overall body of knowledge in Internet and other information and communication technologies adoption at the firm, state, and country levels through contemporaneous research. IJEA publishes papers of both theory and practice that provide guidance to the policy makers, decision makers, and practicing managers in business, industry, government, and academia for various e-adoption perspectives.

Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Sushil K. Sharma is currently Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems and Executive Director of the MBA and Certificate Programs at the Miller College of Business, Ball State University (Muncie, Indiana, USA). He co-edited five books that include the Handbook of Research on Information Assurance and Security and Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations. He is also the co-editor of the book: Managing E-Business (Heidelberg Press, Australia). Dr. Sharma has authored over 100 refereed research papers in many peer-reviewed national and international MIS and management journals, conferences proceedings and books. He serves on editorial boards of several national and international journals and has also edited special issues. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Adoption. His primary teaching and research interests are in e-commerce, computer-mediated communications, community and social informatics, information systems security, e-government, ERP systems, database management systems, cluster computing, Web services and knowledge management. He has a wide consulting experience in information systems and e-commerce and he has served as an advisor and consultant to several government and private organizations including projects funded by the World Bank.

Hayden Wimmer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Information Systems, an M.S. in Information Systems from UMBC, an M.B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg campus and a B.S. in Information Systems from York College of PA. Prior to academia, he worked in industry for over 10 years in different capacities in Information Technology performing programming, web design and administration, server administration, network configuration, database administration, and technical support on all levels. His research interests include artificial intelligence and data mining and science.

Editorial Board

International Advisory Board

Orkun YILDIZ, Gazi University, Turkey

Associate Editors

Donald Amoroso, Auburn University Montgomery, United States

Jie Du, Grand Valley State University, United States

Loreen Powell, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, United States

Rajeev Raje, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, United States

Alshawi Sarmad, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Chia-Wen Tsai, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan

Editorial Review Board

Paul Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

David Barnes, University of Westminster, United Kingdom

Kürşat Çağıltay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Maria Laura Caliusco, Universidad Technologica Nacional, Argentina

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, United States

Chung-Yean Chiang, Georgia Southern University, United States

G. Erickson, Ithaca College, United States

Tiong-Thye Goh, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Tarkan Gürbüz, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Kenneth Hall, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, United States

Gashaw Kebede, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Harilaos Koumaras, National Center For Scientific Research - Demokritos, Greece

James Lawler, Pace University, United States

Maria Lee, Shih Chien University, Taiwan

Nelson Leung, University of Wollongong, Australia

Shinyi Lin, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan

Oswaldo Lorenzo, University of Deusto, Spain

Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Laura Marquez-Ramos, Universitat Jaume I, Spain

Immaculada Martinez-Zarzoso, Universitat Jaume I, Spain

Stephen Mutula, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Karna Naidoo, School of Information Systems and Technology, South Africa

Vilas Nandavadekar, Sinhgad Institute of Management, India

Costake Nicolae, CMC Certification Committee, United States

Iliana Nikolova, University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Michael Wole Olatokun, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Meltem Ozturan, Bogazici University, Turkey

Jinie Pak, Towson University, United States

Yue Pan, University of Dayton, United States

Prantosh Kumar Paul, Raiganj University, India

James Piecowye, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Michael Pollock, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Yew Siang Poong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Alcina Prata, Higher School of Management Sciences ESCE, Portugal

Leonard Presby, William Patterson University, United States

Roy Rada, UMBC, United States

Steve Reames, Angelo State University, United States

Carl Rebman, University of San Diego, United States

Laura Ripamonti, Universita di Milano, Italy

Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Abhijit Roy, University of Scranton, United States

Rahmath Safeena, Taif University, Saudi Arabia

Ramesh Sharma, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia, India

Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, Spain

Mark Simkin, University of Nevada, United States

Changsoo Sohn, St. Cloud State University, United States

Ken Stevens, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Reima Suomi, University of Turku, Finland

Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Russell Thackston, Georgia Southern University, United States

Chandana Unnithan, Monash University Australia and Torrens University Australia, Australia

Kam Vat, University of Macau, China

Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster, Germany

Lejla Vrazalic, University of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Chengbo Wang, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

Kangning Wei, Syracuse University, United States

Dick Whiddett, Massey University, New Zealand

Xiaoni Zhang, Northern Kentucky University, United States

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